Maine Places

County · Incorporated · Incorporated as a City · Previous Designations · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Court Records · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Cumberland County (set off from York County in 1760)

Incorporated

1895 from part of Cape Elizabeth

Incorporated as a City

1898

Previous Designations

Purpooduck (Pooduck)

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Berwick Branch (former post office), Cape Elizabeth Depot (former post office at Pleasantdale), Cape Elizabeth Ferry (former name of South Portland post office), Cash Corner, Ferry Village, Knightville (Knightsville), Meetinghouse Hill, Pleasantdale, South Portland, South Portland Gardens, South Portland Heights, Sunset Park, Thornton Heights, Willard Square, Ligonia (former neighborhood)

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Cape Elizabeth, Portland, Scarborough, Westbrook

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: South Portland

Cemeteries

Calvary Cemetery (Maine Catholic Cemetery Committee's online database)

Court Records

South Portland Municipal Court Records, 1899-1931

Vital Records

South Portland Marriages, 1915-16

South Portland Deaths, 1915-16

Miscellaneous Resources

A Declaration of the Inhabitants of Scarborough, Falmouth, Black Point, and Casco, 1663

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: South Portland

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: South Portland, Cumberland, Maine

Official Website: City of South Portland

South Portland Historical Society

Maine Memory Network: South Portland

Bibliography

______, 1912 Directory of Portland including the city of South Portland and the town of Cape Elizabeth (Portland, Me.: Portland Directory Co., 1912)

______, Directory of Portland, South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, 1936 (Portland, Me.: Fred L. Tower Co., 1936)

______, Directory of Portland, South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, 1944 (Portland, Me.: Fred L. Tower Co., 1944)

______, Directory of Portland, South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, 1947 (Portland, Me.: Fred L. Tower Co., 1947)

______, History of South Portland, Maine (South Portland, Me.: Brownie Press, c1992)

Ledman, Paul J., A Maine town responds : Cape Elizabeth & South Portland in the Civil War (Cape Elizabeth, Me.: Next Steps Pub., 2003)